Tag archives for National Geographic Society
Film: Road to Kurdistan
Posted by Margaret J. Krauss on September 14, 2011 
The long history of the Kurdish people reveals a tangled web of geography, covering large swaths of the modern-day Middle East. Kurds have cultivated a rich tradition despite the rise and fall of governments and changing boundary lines, as theirs is a culture without a clear home. Director Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri brings that tradition into sharp…
#FriFotos: Roman Reflection
Posted by Intelligent Travel on August 26, 2011 
Colosseum, Rome Our pick for this week’s #FriFotos* is a beautiful nighttime shot of the Colosseum and its reflection in the puddles along a wet sidewalk. The photo was submitted to My Shot by Douglas Wylie and selected by our editors for a Your Italy Photos gallery. Do you want to see one of your photographs featured in National…
App Review: The World by National Geographic
Posted by Meghan Miner on August 25, 2011 
Explore the globe with Nat Geo Mobile‘s new app for iPad: The World by National Geographic. This digital atlas–packed with map views, country information, photos, and flags–will have you ditching your clunky globe for this robust, interactive version. The new app (available on iTunes, $3.99) combines the novelty of a spinning globe with the functionality of…
Around the World in a Single Day
Posted by Intelligent Travel on July 28, 2011 
Watch the trailer of National Geographic’s new film “Life in a Day,” a unique user-generated documentary that celebrates the wonders of life and being alive; it’s a beautiful montage of the human experience.
Digital Nomad: Brantford, Ontario
Posted by Intelligent Travel on June 24, 2011 
Our Digital Nomad, Andrew Evans, is in Ontario sharing his travel adventures via photography, tweets, and video (just to name a few.) His latest dispatch comes from the town of Brantford and the homestead of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone and one of the original founders of the National Geographic Society. Read more…
Nat Geo Live! An Evening with Frances Mayes
Posted by Intelligent Travel on April 12, 2011 
Tonight at the National Geographic Society, Traveler Trip Lit Columnist Don George sits down with best-selling author Frances Mayes–of the wildly popular memoir-turned-movie Under the Tuscan Sun–to discuss her latest memoir Every Day in Italy, about renovating a 13th-century house in the mountains above Cortona. Tickets for the event are sold out, but you can…
Emerging Explorers, Day 2
Posted by dbortz on June 11, 2010 This week at our headquarters in Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society hosts its fourth annual Explorers Symposium, in which our grantees from around the world present their work and discuss such topics as educating girls in rural Kenya, sea turtle conservation in Nicaragua, and developing perennial crops that can flourish with little or no…
Stolen Sarcophagus Returned to Egypt
Posted by Janelle Nanos on March 10, 2010 It began at a standard checkpoint, when agricultural specialist Herbert Kercados with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stopped to inspect a crate at Miami International Airport that had been shipped from an art gallery in Spain. Inside the crate was an Egyptian sarcophagus, supposedly being brought to a collector–legally–in Canada. But the inspector’s…
Manure to Carbon Dioxide to Zero Emissions
Posted by Janelle Nanos on December 18, 2009 The ever-so-eloquent Wade Davis, the anthropologist, ethnobotanist, filmmaker, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, is in Copenhagen this week, roaming the streets, speaking with experts, and taking in the exhibits on display throughout the city while the United Nations COP15 meetings on climate change are underway. He’s been putting together a fabulous blog of video and interview…
State of the Earth, 2010
Posted by Meg Weaver on September 1, 2009 We’re excited to announce the launch of National Geographic’s EarthPulse: State of the Earth 2010. Beautifully produced by our NG Maps pals across the courtyard, this visual guide to global trends is available today for purchase online and at newsstands and bookstores. Through images, diagrams, and maps the visual almanac tells the sobering story of…
It’s A Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a… Yellow Bean?
Posted by Janelle Nanos on April 30, 2009 We don’t just talk the talk when it comes to being green here at the National Geographic Society. We’re constantly working on reducing our impact on the environment, from using compost bins in our cafeteria, to switching all desk lamps to energy-efficient CFL bulbs, to purchasing wind power instead of getting our electricity from coal-fired…
Ancient Egypt Arrives in London
Posted by Beth Lizardo on October 24, 2007 The city of London was met with an unusual sight a few weeks ago when a 25-foot statue of Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead, made a trip down the Thames on the back of a cargo ship. The fiberglass statue’s journey ended in Trafalgar Square, where it rested for three days before being…
